Regional Food System Developer
Puget Sound Food Network
http://www.psfn.org
419 S. 1st Street, Suite 200
P.O. Box 2924
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-336-3666 phone
360-336-3751 fax
347-268-1781 cell
206-420-1229 home office
PSFN is a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center
http://www.agbizcenter.org
Thanks Lucy, I will post it around.
Here is a great position if anyone is interested!
Lydia
-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Norris [mailto:lucy@psfn.org]
Sent: Sat 8/7/2010 5:40 PM
To: Lydia Caudill - 20RE
Subject: Americorps position at NABC in Mt Vernon
Hi Lydia- We can officially post this Americorps Farm to Community Coordinator position should you know anyone who lives close to Skagit that would be right for this job with PSFN. The other one is working on Whidbey Island. Thanks.
AmeriCorps Opportunities at NABC
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center (NABC) has service opportunities for two AmeriCorps volunteers. Both positions relate to underserved communities: eliminating hunger and providing access to food in low-income urban and rural communities.
Farm to Community Coordinator:
The Northwest Agriculture Business Center's Puget Sound Food Network (PSFN) is receiving partial funding for its participation in one of two HEAL grants awarded to Seattle Human Services. This project is focused on connecting local food to Seattle's least served communities through the Congregate/Home Delivered Meal Program. The goal of this project is to make healthy foods, preferably local products, affordable for senior congregate and home-delivered meals and child care centers by cooperatively purchasing fresh local produce through a Farm-to-Table partnership. The Farm to Market Coordinator will work with NABC staff and partnering organizations to support development of this innovative program.
PSFN is seeking an AmeriCorps volunteer with solid academic research and writing experience in social sciences or the humanities, who is a critical thinker with good analytical skills, and is eager to learn. Prefer an academic background or equivalent experience in public health, has research and data gathering skills, organizational skills. NABC ideally would prefer someone who dreams of this kind of opportunity as an open door into a career in public health/food policy or childhood or geriatric nutrition.
Farm To Market Coordinator:
The AmeriCorps volunteer will work with the staff and students of NABC's Greenbank Farm Training Center, collaborators from outside organizations, and members of the public to support production of, and access to, locally produced food for all members of the community based on the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) model. Responsibilities will include marketing and other research, assisting with farm product processing and delivery to low-income familiies, demonstrating products and developing marketing materials to raise awareness of local products and the value of locally grown food, working with agriculture busineses to help increase their sustainability and profitibility, coordinating educational workshops for farmers and the public, project administration and related support activities.
For more information about joining AmeriCorps, please contact:
Jennifer Rice,
VISTA and AmeriCorps Coordinator
Skagit County Community Action Agency
jen@servenorthwestwa.org
360-588-5720
360-416-7585 ext. 1185 (main desk)
For more information about PSFN and the HEAL project, please contact:
Lucy Norris, Project Manager
Puget Sound Food Network
lucy@psfn.org
347-268-1781
360-336-3727 (main office)
For more information about the Greenbank Farm Training Center project, please contact:
Maryon Attwood, Project Manager
Maryon@agbizcenter.org
360-336-3727 (main office)
Lucy Norris
Regional Food System Developer
Puget Sound Food Network
http://www.psfn.org
419 S. 1st Street, Suite 200
P.O. Box 2924
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
360-336-3666 phone
360-336-3751 fax
347-268-1781 cell
206-420-1229 home office
PSFN is a project of the Northwest Agriculture Business Center
http://www.agbizcenter.org
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